Word: profounder
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sickest government operations that I have ever seen." A hardline law-and-order advocate, Madigan believes that his own recommendations for disciplining ten of his men-ranging from demotions to 15-day suspensions without pay-were enough. He claims that the indictments will have a "profound effect" on law enforcement across the country, adding: "No one sends for us until things are out of hand and force is necessary...
...something always happens to Godard in the middle of his films. He seems to get bored and self-conscious. But even bored and self-conscious Godard is worth seeing- it just becomes that much more difficult to separate the profound from the trivial. In an interesting sequence called "All About Eve" an interviewer harasses a mournful woman (played by Anna Wiazemsky) with questions Godard feels obligated to ask himself in the middle of every film: "Do you think culture is order? Is a man of culture as far from an artist as a historian from a man of action...
...talk about billions and trillions, and about the size and direction of future growth, rang echoes of the President's State of the Union message of the week before. "In the next ten years," Nixon said in one remarkable passage, "we shall increase our wealth by 50%. The profound question is: Does this mean we will be 50% richer in a real sense, 50% better off, 50% happier...
Course instructors feel that Nat Sci 26-"Biology and Social Issues"-represents a profound change in the kind of subject studied at Harvard, although they do not plan to use the course as a model for new teaching methods...
...this earnest effort serves a useful purpose. It illustrates how an erudite Dudley House senior, with the best intentions in the world, can let admiration for his peers lead him astray. Reaching for the profound insight, Gerzon ends up only with a smug revision of Youth Wants to Know. Here is a fairly representative passage: "With increased cultural communications today's well educated young people cannot accept meanings and opinions. They have access to too many thinkers and have too great a degree of mobility for the ethnocratic answers given them in childhood to remain satisfactory...